Locavores Gear Up for Growing Season

I'm missing the end-of-summer bounty here in South Florida. Where are heirloom tomatoes? Where are the stone fruits? What about local squash? And the resounding answer I've heard in response is that everything's backward here.

"September through May

is really the growing season in South Florida," said Jason McCobb, also known as Farmer Jay. Based in Boca Raton, McCobb runs a ten-acre farm and hosts the Thursday-evening Moonlit Farmers Market. "The rule of thumb is you need for evenings to drop below 75 degrees, which is starting about now," he said.

McCobb

says that in a few weeks, he'll begin planting heirloom

tomatoes -- open-pollinated varieties that have been in circulation for